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No. 443,844. Patented Dee. 30, 1890.

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IIARTWELL Il. BELLOVS, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

WASH-BOARD.

SPECIFICA'HON forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,844, dated Deeember eo, 1890.

Application led August 21, 1890. Serial No. 362,611. (No model.)

To all whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, HARTWELL H. BEL- LOWS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wash-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a wash-board with novel, simple, and economical means for preventing the wash-water from splashing upwardly upon the person using the board; and to this end the invention consists in the features of construction and the combination or arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a washboard containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a section along, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2, with the guard inclined. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the guard.

In the drawings, the letters A A indicate the standards. B is a double-faced rubber, and O is the soap-board. The standards have an intermediate rail D, which holds the standards together and gives considerable strength to the device. The guard E has pintles F made integral with the guard, and said pintles turn in the standards A. The guard is secured above the intermediate rail and said intermediate rail D has a groove in which the guard turns. The edges G of the groove form stops to prevent excessive swinging of the guard in either direction. The intermediate rail D is extended through the standards A, and nails or brads H driven into the sta-ndards-and into the ends of the rail D secure the rail and the standards to one another to make a firm structure.

The device is further strengthened by extending the standards up above the guard and securing a top cross-rail I to said extended portions of the standards.

When the wash-board is in use, the guard F is turned outward to rest on one of the stops G, as shown in Fig. 3, thus protecting the person using the board from the liquid splashed upwardly during the Washing operation.

It will be obvious that the guard can be turned outward at either side according to the face of the wash-board which is to be used, and .that when the wash-board is laid aside for future use the guard can be turned so as not to project at either side, substantially as in Fig. 2, thus permitting the washboard to be laid dat on a shelf.

What I claim as new, and desireto secure by LettersPatent, is-

A wash-board consisting of the standards A, rubber B, soap-board C, the intermediate rail D, having in its top a longitudinal groove with stops G on each side, the top cross-rail I, and the swinging guard E, pivoted in the standards between the rails D and I and having its pintles F in line with the groove in the top of the intermediate rail, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARTWELL I-I. BELLOVS.

Witnesses:

WM. C. HAUEF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

